Sheffield High School For Girls

Sheffield High School for Girls is a girls' school building dated 1884, with mid-20th century additions and alterations, designed by Tanner & Smith of London. It is constructed of rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped plain tile roofs featuring decorative ridge tiles, built in a Tudor Revival style incorporating Arts-and-Crafts detailing.

The central block is three storeys plus attics, with a nine-window range. The front elevation is divided into three recessed panels, with modillion heads, topped by three close-studded gables. There are three large coped stacks to the front, and a single gable stack to the right. Each bay contains three 12-pane sashes with top lights on each floor, with gables having single 2-light casements. The ground floor has double chamfered segment-headed openings. The centre bay features a half-glazed door with side and top lights, flanked to the left by a 3-light wooden cross casement and similar windows in the side bays. A lower, set-back bay to the left has a stone mullioned 3-light cross casement on the lower floors, and a single light window above. The left return has a coped gable with a traceried head and first-floor band inscribed "Sheffield High School for Girls". A canted two-storey porch with a hipped roof and a 6-pane window sits on a battered plinth containing a single light window. An adjoining hipped canopy protects a stone external stair. A lower, set-back right wing has two windows. A three-storey block to the right has irregular fenestration. The right return has two semicircular 5-light bow windows to the second-floor library, with smaller windows below. Mid-20th century additions are located to the right.

The interior has not been inspected. The building represents a largely intact example of a school constructed following the establishment of the Girls' Public Day School Trust in 1872.